The Giants’ bats slept in Monday in their earliest start of the season, leading to a 3-1 loss that opened their three-game series in Detroit.
A 10:10 a.m. PT first pitch can’t be to blame, however, for the Giants’ offensive woes, not when they failed to score more than four runs in any of their previous eight games.
The Giants (31-23) managed just five hits and none went for extra bases against the American League Central-leading Tigers (35-20).
Only one hit came in five innings off Tigers starter Keider Montero, who retired 13 batters in a row after Jung Hoo Lee’s out-out flare to left in the first inning. Down 3-0 to open the sixth, Matt Chapman and Lee delivered one-out singles off reliever Tyler Holton, followed by Wilmer Flores’ two-strike, RBI single off the Tigers’ next reliever, Brenan Hanifee. That rally was short lived as Willy Adames then grounded into a double play, dropping his batting average to .206.
Adames would cap his 0-for-4 day in the ninth inning, with a grounder that got Flores out at second after he reached on a single. LaMonte Wade Jr. then struck out looking, sinking his average to. 161, and Tyler Fitzgerald lined out to right to cap the offensive woes
Hayden Birdsong (1-1) impressed in his second start after excelling in the bullpen to start his second big-league season. But the Tigers scratched across a run in the fourth, then Birdsong got lifted amid a decisive fifth-inning rally.
Birdsong was pitching a scoreless gem until Dillon Dingler’s two-out single scored Colt Keith, who beat left fielder Luis Matos’ dribbling throw home to Andrew Bailey.
Birdsong got chased one out into the fifth inning, leaving Kerry Carpenter (single) and Gleyber Torres (walk) for reliever Erik Miller, who promptly loaded the bases with a five-pitch walk. Clean-up batter Riley Greene delivered a two-run single to right, making it a 3-0 Giants deficit. Adames turned a double play to end the inning, which started with Birdsong striking out Javier Báez, who then promptly got ejected for arguing the call with umpire Phil Cuzzi.
In the opening frame, Lee’s single followed a Matt Chapman walk, but those runners got stranded at second and third following a Flores groundout and an Adames strikeout.
The Giants stayed off the basepaths until Bailey drew a two-out walk in the fourth, followed by No. 9-hitter Luis Mattos’ lineout.
The Tigers threatened to score first in the opening inning. Matos got twisted in retreat of Keith’s two-out flyball before it one-hopped off Matos’ mitt and over the wall for a double, on what initially was deemed an error. Matos, making only his fourth start of the season in left field, promptly made amends by snagging Riley Greene’s 357-foot flyout at the wall.
The Giants will send Logan Webb (5-4, 2.67 ERA) up against Jack Flaherty (2-6, 4.39) in Tuesday’s 3:40 p.m. PT game, with Wednesday’s 10:10 a.m. PT series finale pitting Landon Roupp (3-3, 3.63) vs. Jackson Jobe (4-1, 4.06).
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